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We will perform at your venue, presenting work in a format to match your technical
and space considerations. Catalyst is interested in giving your audience a real
and lasting experience as they witness contemporary music and dance. By offering
new perspectives on aspects of their own lives, Catalyst intends to create the
opportunity for dialogue by presenting a new way of looking at the ordinary and
acceptable. We have performed at fully equipped theaters complete with technical
marvels and staff to manage it all. We have also performed at spaces not necessarily
meant for it - outside, school gyms, bare rooms with folding chairs and clip
lights run by members of the company. To receive a full press kit and DVD work
sample, contact Emily Johnson at emily@catalystdance.com.
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Marley over a sprung wood floor is optimal, other floors are acceptable |
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Extremely hard, or concrete floors must be covered in marley |
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A basic lighting plot is sufficient to light the performance. If budgeted for and needed, Catalyst can bring a lighting designer to design the show |
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An in-house sound board operator an in-house light board operator |
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Spacing/sound set up in the performance space |
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Technical rehearsal with lighting designer and light and sound board operators |
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Two hour dress rehearsal |
| educational componenets / workshops |
In addition to performance, members of Catalyst are available for a variety of educational and
audience building sessions. To set up any of the following, please contact Emily Johnson of Catalyst.
Any educational components must be scheduled to be completed by 3pm the day of performance.
Options include:
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Q & A after the performance: A forum to build understanding between live performance and audience. Guided by a specific outline to generate critique. |
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Lecture demonstrations: An opportunity to engage students outside of dance or music studies. Through video or live lecture demonstrations,we actively engage with students interested in the issues we perform about. For example, discussing the rise of sea level due to global warming and demonstrating movement made under that imagined scenario makes connections between learned facts and creative applications. |
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Workshop taught by director Emily Johnson: Emily Johnson works
with participants to generate intentional, but not necessarily "meaningful" movement,
using the intelligence of the body to purposefully move in space.
Dancers will work to refine individual technique with poetic, actual,
and imagined tools, honing improvisations and leading to powerful,
clear dancing. Dancers (or non-dancers) must be interested in investigating
their own motivations for dancing. |
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Workshop with musician James Everest: As an experienced, professional musician, promoter, and music teacher, James Everest is able to facilitate discussions on a wide-range of topics, including music composition, improvisation, recording, promotion, organization, performance, collaboration, and music technology. Dialogues can be beneficial for students interested in pursuing careers in music-related fields, but also can be enriching for those students simply seeking a better understanding of the process of making music. |
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Dance/Music Workshop with Emily Johnson and James Everest In real-time, movement and sound is composed, recorded (or remembered), repeated, and added to, creating music/movement absolutely created in tandem without hierarchy and without the strappings of perfectionism. The results are incredibly fun, sometimes frustrating, and ultimately invigorating for participants. |
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Short biography of workshops, repertoire, and new choreographies taught by director, Emily Johnson
Montreal, Canada, May 2005
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, Spring 2005
VIZIT Agency, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 2003
Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2003
St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, Fall 2003
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, September 2002
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fall 1999
Zenon Scholarship Program, Minneapolis, 1998.
Austin University, lecture to dance history students, January 2007
Chicago Cultural Center, Public Symposium:
Through Different Lenses;
Community Annalysis, Interpretation, and Action Towards Environmental
Policy, March 2007
Montreal, Canada, dance & muisc workshop, May 2005
Macalester College, commissioned work on dance students,
St. Paul, Minnesota, Spring 2005
VIZIT Agency, week long dance workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, March
2003
St. Olaf College, commissioned work on dance student,
Northfield, Minnesota, Fall 2003
Carleton College, repertory work set on dance program students,
Northfield, Minnesota, September 2002
University of Minnesota, repertory work on tour, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, Fall 1999
Zenon Scholarship Program, new work created on scholarship
students, Minneapolis, 1998 |
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